LAS VEGAS and ATLANTA, Aug. 15,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ:
SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company") today announced that
the Ohio Lottery Commission ("the Lottery") has extended its
primary instant games contract for two years with Scientific Games,
the world's leading supplier of lottery instant games.
In addition to instant games, the Company has begun rolling out
SalesMaker™ in Ohio, a
highly successful lottery retail development and training program.
Scientific Games also provides the Lottery with research and
consumer studies, licensed properties, and interactive
services.
In fiscal year 2016, the Ohio Lottery ranked among the Top 20
lotteries worldwide for total instant game sales (La Fleur's
Almanac). Scientific Games has been the Lottery's primary
provider of instant games since 2001.
In September, the Lottery will launch Scientific Games'
blockbuster WILLY WONKA GOLDEN TICKET™ instant linked game,
offering players a bonus second-chance opportunity to win trips to
Las Vegas, where the luckiest will
take part in the WILLY WONKA BILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE™ event
to win cash prizes from $1,000 up to
a $1 billion annuity.
During its 16-year partnership, Scientific Games and the Ohio
Lottery have innovated top-selling instant games together including
Holiday Cash, Cash Explosion®
30th Anniversary, Luck of the Irish, and most
recently — oversized Gigantix™ instant games.
Scientific Games' John Schulz,
Senior Vice President, Instant Products, said, "We are honored to
continue working with the Ohio Lottery to grow instant game
revenue, introducing exciting new games that appeal to players and
that are supported by a best-in-class retail program."
Currently, Scientific Games provides games, technology and
services to more than 150 lotteries globally, including nearly
every North American lottery.
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About Scientific Games
Scientific Games Corporation
(NASDAQ: SGMS) is a leading developer of technology-based products
and services and associated content for worldwide gaming, lottery
and interactive markets. The Company's portfolio includes gaming
machines, game content and systems; table games products and
utilities; instant and draw-based lottery games; server-based
lottery and gaming systems; sports betting technology; loyalty and
rewards programs; and interactive content and services. For more
information, please visit us at www.scientificgames.com.
Company Contacts
Lottery Communications:
Therese Minella (770) 825-4219
Investor Relations:
Bill Pfund (702) 532-7663
Corporate Communications:
Susan Cartwright (702) 532-7981
Forward-Looking Statements
In this press release,
Scientific Games makes "forward-looking statements" within the
meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Forward-looking statements describe future expectations,
plans, results or strategies and can often be identified by the use
of terminology such as "may," "will," "estimate," "intend," "plan,"
"continue," "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "target," "should,"
"could," "potential," "opportunity," "goal," or similar
terminology. These statements are based upon management's current
expectations, assumptions and estimates and are not guarantees of
timing, future results or performance. Therefore, you should not
rely on any of these forward-looking statements as predictions of
future events. Actual results may differ materially from those
contemplated in these statements due to a variety of risks and
uncertainties and other factors, including, among other things:
competition; U.S. and international economic and industry
conditions, including slow growth of new gaming jurisdictions, slow
addition of casinos in existing jurisdictions, and declines in the
replacement cycle of gaming machines; ownership changes and
consolidation in the gaming industry; opposition to legalized
gaming or the expansion thereof; inability to adapt to, and offer
products that keep pace with, evolving technology, including any
failure of our investment of significant resources in our R&D
efforts; inability to develop successful products and services and
capitalize on trends and changes in our industries, including the
expansion of internet and other forms of interactive gaming; laws
and government regulations, including those relating to gaming
licenses and environmental laws; dependence upon key providers in
our social gaming business; inability to retain or renew, or
unfavorable revisions of, existing contracts, and the inability to
enter into new contracts; level of our indebtedness, higher
interest rates, availability or adequacy of cash flows and
liquidity to satisfy indebtedness, other obligations or future cash
needs; inability to reduce or refinance our indebtedness;
restrictions and covenants in debt agreements, including those that
could result in acceleration of the maturity of our indebtedness;
protection of our intellectual property, inability to license third
party intellectual property, and the intellectual property rights
of others; security and integrity of our products and systems and
reliance on or failures in information technology and other
systems; challenges or disruptions relating to the implementation
of a new global enterprise resource planning system; failure to
maintain internal control over financial reporting; natural events
that disrupt our operations or those of our customers, suppliers or
regulators; inability to benefit from, and risks associated with,
strategic equity investments and relationships; failure to achieve
the intended benefits of our acquisitions; incurrence of
restructuring costs; implementation of complex revenue recognition
standards or other new accounting standards; changes in estimates
or judgments related to our impairment analysis of goodwill or
other intangible assets; fluctuations in our results due to
seasonality and other factors; dependence on suppliers and
manufacturers; risks relating to foreign operations, including
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, restrictions on
the payment of dividends from earnings, restrictions on the import
of products and financial instability, including the potential
impact to our business resulting from the affirmative vote in the
U.K. to withdraw from the EU, and the potential impact to our
instant lottery game concession or VLT lease arrangements resulting
from the recent economic and political conditions in Greece; changes in tax laws or tax rulings, or
the examination of our tax positions; dependence on key employees;
litigation and other liabilities relating to our business,
including litigation and liabilities relating to our contracts and
licenses, our products and systems, our employees (including labor
disputes), intellectual property, environmental laws and our
strategic relationships; influence of certain stockholders; and
stock price volatility.
Additional information regarding risks, uncertainties and other
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those contemplated in forward-looking statements is included from
time to time in our filings with the SEC, including the Company's
current reports on Form 8-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and its
latest annual report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on
March 3, 2017 (including under the
headings "Forward Looking Statements" and "Risk Factors").
Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made
and, except for Scientific Games' ongoing obligations under the
U.S. federal securities laws, Scientific Games undertakes no
obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements
whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
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